WOMEN’S ‘POWER’? NOT HERE
Do aliens exist? No, not the ones being detained at airports, but the ones that are flying though space and time. A recent study shows that 54% of Americans believe, as does one famous rocker, who’s written a book to prove it.
Backstory: Even though hundreds of thousands of people swear they’ve seen or been abducted, poked and prodded by aliens, we reduce them to lunatics (no pun intended) who probably wear aluminum foil hats.
But in 1987, respected author Whitley Strieber risked his reputation to write “Communion,” a nonfiction book about his terrifying abduction by aliens. He wrote that the government hides alien evidence because the truth would cause worldwide panic. That book and many of his others were turned into movies and TV shows because people believe.
Thus, the popularity of the TV series “Ancient Aliens” hosted by crazy-coiffed Giorgio Tsoukalos, who once told me he must have gotten his hairdo from aliens. The show is not on SyFy, but on History Channel for Gods (& Monsters) sake!
Now we can add Tom DeLonge, former guitarist and vocalist of Blink 182, to the list of believers.
In 2015, DeLonge quit the band to study extraterrestrial life, and this month published another book he wrote with occult historian Peter Levenda, called “Sekret Machines: Gods, Man, & War.”
The book poses the challenge that, “If UFOs and physical reality are incompatible, maybe the time has come to re-negotiate physical reality. Because, as we all know, these impossible UFOs that don’t exist are not going away.”
Count me among the 54% of believers.
In fact, I’m about to go trekking in Peru and Bolivia just to see the structures that simply couldn’t have been built by slaves with rocks and rollers.
Take Puma Punku in Bolivia, for example. Built around 536 AD, the site has megalithic temple stones that are among the largest on earth, some weighing more
than 100 tons, displaying laserlike precision carving, yet no chisel marks remain. What’s that, you say? It was built by slaves?
OK, so you don’t believe that life on other planets can possibly exist but you believe that a bunch of slaves with ropes moved stones weighing 200,000 pounds each over 60 miles from a quarry to another site 12,800 feet above sea level nearly 1,500 years ago. Right.
Even if you’re not a fan of aliens but are a fan of Blink 182, read DeLonge’s book. You should also pick up Strieber’s book, written with Professor Jeffrey Kripal, called, “The Super Natural: A New Vision of the Unexplained.”
Or not. Look, we all bought into the movie version of how the Egyptian pyramids were built by Jewish slaves with rolling logs and ropes. But in 2010, Hebrew University archeology professor Amihai Mazar told U.S. News: “Jews didn’t exist at the period when the pyramids were built.” Oh.
As George W. Bush might say, “That was some weird s--t.” Donald Trump and Mike Pence gave speeches at the Women’s Empowerment panel on Wednesday. Then on Thursday Pence made it his business to unempower women by breaking the Senate’s tie vote to block federal family planning funds from Planned Parenthood and any other facilities that provide abortion.
In other words, he blocked women from receiving family planning — so if they get pregnant because they were denied family planning, they can’t terminate their pregnancies because they were denied birth control.
Next he’ll deny us the right to buy shoes, in order to fulfill our true destinies of being pregnant and barefoot.
In Donald’s speech, he declared, “My cabinet is full of really incredible women leaders.”
Uh, four out of 24 isn’t what you’d call a full house. More like a sixth of a house.
“Have you heard of Susan B. Anthony?” he then joked. “I’m shocked that you’ve heard of her.”
Yes, we’ve heard of her. In fact, we hear her rolling around in her grave right now.